Jean Schmidt, Who Gets to Decide What's A Lie?

US Representative Jean Schmidt (R-OH2) reportedly seeks to make bloggers criminally liable for "lies"

Americablog: New GOP congresswoman from Ohio - the crazy one - taking on the blogs
by John (temporarily) in Paris - 8/12/2005 03:07:00 PM

But as others have noted, like Atrios, as none of us are blogs anymore - we're now online journals of public opinion - her legislation won't affect us anyway. Just like the new GOP leadership, if you can't beat 'em, censor 'em. Because this is not America...

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/08/new-gop-congresswoman-from-ohio-crazy.html